Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1914 — Population of Earth. [ARTICLE]

Population of Earth.

IThe population of the entire earth is around 1,600,000.000 —one thousand sii hundred millions. Of this number Asia has over half, 850,000,000; Africa, 127,000,000; North America, 120,000,000; South America, 45,000,000; Australia, 8,000,000; Europe, 380,000,000; polar regions, 300,000. There are no means of estimating the increase of the earth’s population, owing to the paucity ot statistics and the comparatively recent date at which any sort of statistics were possible. But it is safp to say that from now on, owing to the spreafl of science, the human increase will he greater than aver before.